Did an Academic Outsider Determine What Saved Jerusalem from Conquest by the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib in 701 BCE?
Academics don’t have all the answers. A new look at a neglected book by a journalist suggests an intriguing solution to the question of who saved Jerusalem from Sennacherib’s a
Neo-Assyrian Deportation and the Levant
February 2021 | Vol. 9.2 By Jonathan Valk At the height of its power in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, the Neo-Assyrian state could truly call itself a universal empire. It exercis
Why Did Sennacherib Create Two Accounts of His Siege of Lachish?
Sennacherib’s reliefs from his palace at Nineveh famously show the destruction of the Judean city of Lachish. But why do the written accounts of the conquest differ from the reli